ESPN’s President John Skipper’ Compares eSports to Chess and Checkers

Last Thursday while doing an interview at the Code/Media Series: New York ESPN owner John Skipper voiced his opinion about eSports. “It’s not a sport – it’s a competition. Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition,” said Skipper. (Recode)

Here is some numbers for John Skipper- According to Super Data Research “Riot Games made $624 million in revenue for League of Legends in 2013 and Dota 2 made around $80 million.” Super Data Research also pointed out that the worldwide viewership for eSports has doubled in the past year, now reaching over 70 million people.